“Instead of being maudlin, Bodega Bay is mysterious; buried deep inside us, we realize, are the answers we were looking for all along.”
— Raven Snook, Time Out New York
“Elisabeth Karlin has fashioned a smart play on the theme of seeing and being seen. She’s also written a fairly effective and involving detective story…Once Louise begins her westward trek, and the mystery involving the whereabouts of her mother begins casting noirish shadows everywhere, the play pulls you in quickly.”
— Mark Dundas Wood, Backstage
“Elisabeth Karlin’s script is wonderfully written, with just the right mix of comedy, drama and wackiness—she has a way of making her characters very full-bodied.”
— Iris Greenberger, Show Business
“Allow Bodega Bay to warm your heart on a cold winter’s eve. Let its story envelop you, and let its honest reflection on one woman’s invisibility be a reminder of our own attempts at significance…Elisabeth Karlin crafts an amazing story with an endearing lead character…It provides the best in theatrical writing and acting.”
— Giovanna Philippeaux, EDGE
“Bodega Bay is complex, unexpected and so detailed it’s as if watching a live screenplay the likes of Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers film. This is a trip you’ll want to take, entertaining and perpetually intriguing. Karlin has a terrific imagination.”
— Alex Cohen, Woman Around Town
“Elisabeth Karlin’s Bodega Bay could be described as a search, travel, or road story. But these terms don’t do justice to the unique, quirky contents of the heroine’s (mis)adventures…The play always intrigues; Who among us hasn’t felt at one time or another the urge to search for someone or something? One is left with various emotions: regret, optimism, sadness.”
— Diana Barth, Epoch Times
“Elisabeth Karlin’s Bodega Bay is a thriller with witty quips well delivered and an interesting point of view, psychologically. This thriller is a roller coaster with twists and turns.”
— Suzanna Bowling, Times Square Chronicles
“In the Abingdon Theater Company production [of The Mooncalf] Sturgis Warner, the director, and a well-chosen cast define the generational and sexual conflicts in two fatherless New York families so sharply that the audience keeps laughing through two hours. Why not? These mothers and their offspring don’t let death get in the way of their not always attractive but ultimately winning natures.”
— D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times
“The Mooncalf surprises; its whip cream surface hides below a tangy filling…the right combination of tears and laughter that is this play’s enduring recipe.”
— David Lohrey, Curtain Up
“Playwright Elisabeth Karlin [in Lucy’s Last Date] cuts to the heart of these lonely people, presenting insights into two lost souls who keep trying to be loved.”
— Elias Stimac, Drama-Logue, Critic’s Choice
“Elisabeth Karlin’s beautifully written, poignant drama is about two lonely people looking for love in all the wrong places.'“
— Beth Hill, Los Angeles Reader
“Lucy’s Last Date is a comedy but a heart-searing one, of a woman about to get stood up on yet another date.”
— Scott Odom, Center Stage, KXLU 88.9